7-A

Question 1

Genre

Answer 1

means ‘kind’

Question 2

Aristotle defined tragedy as the limitations of an action that is serious and also having _____, complete in itself

Answer 2

magnitude

Question 3

the ____ that the tragic hero makes are the trigger of the drama

Answer 3

choices

Question 4

aristotle belief was that tragedy was meant to instil ____ and ____ in audiences and it would eventually a feeling of ______ or emotional purgitiation

Answer 4

pity fear cathorsis

Question 5

____ is the pride that leads a character to believe a triumph over the gods could be possible

Answer 5

Hubris

Question 6

_____ invented the trilogy format where every play serves as a chaparter in a continous dramayic narrative

Answer 6

Aeschylus

Question 6

aristotle’s _______ was based on a sphocles play ______ written in 430 BC

Answer 6

Poetics Oedipus

Question 7

tragedy embodies a ____

Answer 7

moral lesson

Question 8

what are some things that sophocles developed in theatre

Answer 8

third actor
scenery

Question 9

____ introduces deux de machina and gradually diminished the chorus’ prominence

Answer 9

Euripides

Question 10

what are 6 element of tragedy by aristotle

Answer 10

plot
character
thought
diction
melody
spectacle

(help to remember: Please Choose That Dog, Mr. Spot.)

Question 11

for the french neoclassical traedy, ___ was the appearance of truth, not realism but an idealized truth was introduced

Answer 11

verisimilitude

Question 12

mystery plays focus on what kind of story

Answer 12

christian

Question 13

______ generally deals with characters and subjects that one would not generally consider funny

Answer 13

black comedy

Question 14

_____ is marked by irony and wit

Answer 14

satire

Question 15

what tool of comedy includes puns, jokes, and sarcasm?

Answer 15

language

Question 15

_____ is often denigrated as a low form of comedy because of its reliance on broad slapstick humour

Answer 15

Slapstick

Question 16

____ centers around the relationship between two sympathetic young lovers

Answer 16

Romantic comedy

Question 17

elizabethan playrights include: (4)

Answer 17

John Webster
Shakespeare
Jonson
Marlowe

(to remember: Just Stop Jumping Ma’am)

Question 17

high comedy is also known as __ of ______, ______ was the master of this form. _______ was the inventor of this genre

Answer 17

comedy of manners
Oscar Wilde
Moliere

Question 17

___ is one of the most influential genres with its roots in popular english theatre of the nineteenth century

Answer 17

melodrama

Question 18

comedys function is to

Answer 18

unravel & remake social fabric
show the audience life as it is
point out flaws of man

Question 19

what tool of comedy includes sexual jokes and violating social taboos?

Answer 19

transgression

Question 19

characters in a _____ set out to deliberately disrupt social norms

Answer 19

low comedy

Question 20

this type of comedy often revolves around eternal social problems

Answer 20

situation comedy

Question 21

tragic hero

Answer 21

fails to overcome preordained fate his/her choices trigger the drama responsible for events, embodies moral lesson

Question 21

most common type of play in classical greece

Answer 21

tragedy

Question 22

what did greek tragedies try to make reason of?

Answer 22

why do bad things happen?

Question 23

layout of greek tragedy

Answer 23

long prologue/exposition, chorus enter 5 episodes punctuated by chorus odes chorus exits at the end poetic verse singing or dancing downfall of characters status

Question 24

three unities of aristotles

Answer 24

action place time

Question 25

six parts aristotles

Answer 25

plot character thought diction melody spectacle

Question 26

aspects of a tragic hero

Answer 26

refuses their fate to find self-fulfillment archetypal essential goodness pride

Question 27

three playrights of greek tragedies

Answer 27

Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides

Question 28

who was Thespis

Answer 28

first popular actor

Question 29

Sophocles playwright

Answer 29

over 120 plays contemporary writing Oedipus, Oedipus at colonus, Antigone

Question 30

Euripides playwright

Answer 30

most plays survived characters were more ordinary medea, video watched in class, mother son deus de machina, diminished chorus prominence

Question 31

Middle Ages

Question 32

new form in the renaissance

Answer 32

1 climactic plot 3 unities 1 day and 1 location verisimilitude long poetic speeches

Question 33

what is comedy about?

Answer 33

common people w/ common problems

Question 34

6 tools of comedy

Answer 34

surprise exaggeration obsession slapstick transgression language

Question 35

8 subsections of comedy, based on style

Answer 35

satire farce romantic comedy black comedy situation comedy high comedy low comedy melodrama